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Not only is there a rich flora of native trees but many mesembry- 
anthemums, aloes and other succulents are to be found growing wild 
at Kirstenbosch and as the climate of the Cape Peninsula is one 
which is favourable to the growth of succulents it will no doubt be 
possible to build up an almost complete collection of the remarkable 
succulent flora of the Karoo, Namaqualand, &c., an achievement 
which alone might be held to justify the establishment of a 
National Botanic Garden in that Peninsula. (Further details as 
as the site, etc., are given in the article by Professor I. W 
mand for a National Garden will be generally agreed, but 
in possessing full confidence that the task so enthusiastically under- 
taken will be carried to a successful fulfilment and rejoices in the 
formation of the Society and in the establishment of the National 
Botanic Garden. 
LI—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Mr. Humpnrey Gitpert Carrer, M.B., Ch.B. (Kdin.), 
has been appointed by the Secretary of State for India in Council, 
on the recommendation of Kew, Economic Botanist to the Botanical 
Survey of India. 
. Mr. Joun Nort Mitsu, a member of the gardening staff of 
the Royal Botanic Gardens, has been appointed by the Secretary 
of State ‘or the Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, an 
Assistant Superintendent of Government Plantations in the 
Federated Malay States in succession to Mr. J. G. Watson (K. B. 
1913, p. 48) who has been transferred to the Forestry Department 
of the Federated Malay States. 
